Archives for the 'money' Category
Money and you [eDragonu - the choice of a personal path]
Money is one of the most common topics in western culture. Almost any newspaper, book, movie or other form of collective information media is talking about it, in one form or another. Without any doubt, money has become an obsession of the western culture, one of the most materialistic culture in whole history. Money seems [...]
When Your Budget Gets Blasted (Misc) [Tech Rest]
Sometimes life happens and you find yourself in a nearly instant financial crisis.
Although I’m not an accountant or a financial advisor, I’m no stranger to these situations.
So what do you pay first? Next?
Food. You’ve gotta eat and it’s a mistake to pay bills before you buy groceries.
Transportation. If you can’t get to work, things are [...]
Reviews of my GTD Site [Getting Things Done]
A couple of weeks ago I started a promotion experiment: earn money by writing an honest and serious review of my GTD site. The initial call for reviews apparently wasn’t interesting enough, so I upped the ante a little bit.
The second call for reviews produced 4 reviews of my GTD site by fellow bloggers. Today [...]
Determining Value For Money [Organize IT]
My primary way of determining value for money, especially when it comes to media like DVDs and music CDs is hours of entertainment vs cost. For example new film DVDs in the UK tend to cost around £16.00 and they tend to last around 2 hours. If you just watch the film once that works [...]
4 Causes and Solutions for Wasting Time at Work [Gearfire Productivity]
Last week Download Squad posted a survey stating that the average American worker wastes 20% of their time on activities such as needless chatting, web surfing, etc.
Wasting time at work can help pass those Friday afternoons more quickly, but when end of year bonuses roll along, you may not be so pleased. Here are a [...]
Meme: Who is in my feed list? [Gearfire Productivity]
I have just been “challenged” at Lorelle on Wordpress to post about who is in my feed list. I probably wouldn’t have written this a month ago, because my feed list was nothing to be proud of. I had over 120 individual subscriptions, many of them to large posting sites such as Digg, Reddit, [...]
List Extravaganza: 5000 tips on 100 lists [How to be an Original]
There’s a true listmania in the blogosphere. Lists are a very popular way to get information across, and most bloggers use them regularly. At first I noticed mainly the top 5, top 10, top 20 and top 100 lists. Pretty standard stuff. Until I saw the first 42 list at ZenHabits, then a 78 list [...]